Satanism

The Satanic Temple recently caused a furore by announcing plans to erect a Satanic monument outside the State Capitol. The organization has now unveiled the proposed design (at right). Those wishing to…

It should be fun to watch Oklahoman lawmakers try to squirm out of allowing this Satanic Temple edifice (featuring interactive kids’ display!) to be erected next to the existing Ten Commandments monument…

Alex Murashko writes at the Christian Post: Christian magicians are rising to defend themselves against assertions made by a Christian Post columnist that the performance of magic may involve the occult. They…

Once signs are erected signifying that that highway is under the care of the Satanic Temple, will the religiously devout steer clear? The New York group has unveiled a surreal video as part of their Indiegogo campaign to raise the $15,000 needed to “promote a message of Satanic civic pride and social responsibility”:

Help The Satanic Temple spread their message as they enter the adopt-a-highway program in New York City where they will maintain voluntary beautification of a stretch of public highway for at least 2 years by way of litter cleanup and landscaping.

Once approved, the New York Department of Transportation will erect a blue-and-white sign acknowledging The Satanic Temple as the adopters of the designated piece of highway.

Back in the day I worked in an office at 666 Fifth Avenue in New York. I had a couple of people refuse to meet there because of the “satanic” address. This story from ABC News reminded me that some people really take the Bible much too literally:

Walter Slonopas received his W-2 tax form and found the number 666 stamped on it. Calling it a satanic omen, he quit his job.

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Slonopas, 52, was a maintenance worker at a metal manufacturing company in Clarksville, Tenn. called Contech Casting LLC.

“I cannot accept this number. If you accept that number, you sell your soul to the devil,” Slonopas told ABC News…

Your consciousness is always going to be a reflection your own informational intake, and it was probably reading pieces on Disinfo last week regarding shit like the practical applications of witch hunts,…

One of the more comedic segments from our turn of the millennium TV series featured a group of self-described satanists. Take them and the former FBI agent on their tail, Ted Gunderson, seriously, or not, as you prefer…

Witness the spirit of Mars summoned three weeks ago in Los Angeles in haunting and beautiful fashion, as Butler invokes forces I would be scared to tamper with:

L&M Arts presents The Bartzabel Working, a performance by filmmaker and artist Brian Butler, on December 4th, 2012. Based on a ceremonial evocation of the spirit of Mars, first written and performed in London in 1910 by the famed British occultist Aleister Crowley, the ritual later became part of Los Angeles history in 1946 when Jack Parsons conducted his own version of this rite with the intention of placing a Martial curse on a pre-scientology L. Ron Hubbard.

Did Crowley channel an alien being called LAM, long before the modern UFO movement? Via Who Forted?, Patrick Fennelly reveals: Throughout Crowley’s years as a magus, he often attempted to contact intelligences…

How much occult imagery can be squeezed into one short rock video? The answer? A lot. Check out the very definitely NSFW video “Follow the Smoke/Conjure War” from psych metal band Invasion, and see how many of the clips in the video you can match to their sources.

Bizarre doesn’t even begin to describe these two! From the Smoking Gun: Two young Milwaukee women were arrested this week after an 18-year-old Arizona man–who traveled to Wisconsin by bus after meeting…